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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Horace

Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday

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